If you still have an affinity for books, there can be few more choice summer reads than Edmund White's autobiography, My Lives. Divided into nonlinear sections devoted to his relationships with his parents, his hustlers, and his female entanglements, there's also a chapter entitled "My Europe. He also recounts how the social theorist Michel Foucault, a pal of his, noted that while "'gay philosophy' and 'gay paintings' were meaningless notions Foucault apparently "felt that relationships between gay men were tenuous, undefined, still to be invented, and that gay fiction was the place where a vision of association could be worked out in concrete detail.
The same could be said of LGBT cinema, and there's no better place to observe this phenomenon than at Lincoln Center where right now the 26th edition of NewFest July , Manhattan's annual showcase of the best of current non-heteronormative cinema, is unfolding.
Held in conjunction with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, NewFest is screening 21 features plus a truckload of shorts that delve into the worlds of lesbian hustlers, retired porn directors, British rubber and leather fetishists, teen romances, extreme gay parenting, and post-World War II Dutch drag performers. Adam Baran's highly entertaining music video for Holopaw's "Dirty Boots He Don't ," a paean of sorts to Kenneth Anger, is a fine example of something you might not have ever seen before unless you watch True Blood or any other series on cable.
In this five-or-so-minute, astutely shot short [photo above], a multi-ethnic gang of attractive Brooklyn bikers sleep together, wake up, urinate in the shower, get high, throw grapes at each other, and then have an orgy at a local sex club.
Accompanying the intriguing visuals is the at-times almost indecipherable narration by porn legend Peter Berlin that bookends the at-times almost indecipherable lyrics by Holopaw. Apparently while rubbing against the lead biker, a transgender "male" places the palm of one of his hands over his partner's mouth while sticking two fingers up the partner's nostrils, holding them there until the biker orgasms.
